Love one Another!

 

29 July 2024

17th Week Ordinary Time

Monday

1 Jn 4:7-16

Meditation

Love one Another!

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.  Dear friends, since God loved us so much, we should also love one another.  No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us (1 Jn 4:7-12).

Love has different grades, levels, degrees, outlooks, attitudes and different ways of looking at it. In actuality, genuine love is the same as that which wishes the complete good of the other. God’s love is pure and wishes only the good of humans. Everyone may not be able to achieve such love of God. Human beings are entitled to imitate the true love of Jesus shown by dying on the cross. Let everyone make, an effort to grow in genuine love.

What is genuine love?

Ss Martha, Mary, Lazarus(Mem)

Fr Putti Anthaiah Sdb

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